We are looking for scripts and writers who aspire to create PROTOCALIA: elevated storytelling about human-created systems, and the pressures they place on individuals. If you have a script or short story, please use the submission portal on Google Drive. Please note this link requires you to be logged
It is an incredibly challenging time in the film business. The audience is fractured, new media competes for attention, and the old ways are breaking. But an interesting thing happens when art forms recede from the cultural spotlight: their signature works never go away. Bach, Mozart and Beethoven. Van Gogh,
I am Lukas Kendall, a writer, producer and filmmaker, and also the publisher of FILM SCORE MONTHLY, a magazine I founded as a high school student that became a well-known CD label, website and community. But really—I am a fan. I am a passionate admirer of what we’
PROTOCALIA is elevated or “upscale” genre—sometimes “grounded sci-fi.” It is fascinated by the systems that humans create around us: workplaces, governments, corporations, technologies, rituals, bureaucracies, families and economies. Think procedural realism, corporate conspiracies, surveillance, body horror, identity collapse and technological dehumanization. Worlds of adult professionals and moral exhaustion.